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For further information about this beautiful religious order, please visit handmaidsoftheheartofjesus.org/.
JOY OF FOLLOWING OUR LORD women and missionaries. It was a very formative time for me. Handmaids of the Heart of Jesus would come occasionally to the University of Minnesota for different events and even come to our house to give us spiritual direction.” In 2018, Sr. Cecilia took a courageous leap of faith and entered the Handmaids of the Heart of Jesus in New Ulm. “Our religious order is Marian, diocesan, Eucharistic and contemplative,” Sr. Cecilia says. “Our life is centered around prayer, especially two daily Eucharistic Holy Hours. The center of our missionary activity is the parish, where we serve as spiritual mothers in order to help it to be a true family of faith. We serve each parish according to its particular needs — primarily in its catechetical, liturgical and familial life.”
Thanks to God’s grace, Sr. Cecilia made her first religious vows this past August. Looking back, she can’t help but marvel at His providence and tender mercy. “Being a nun has been such a great gift!” she says. “It has been wonderful to see how the Lord knows me better than I know myself. He also understands my desires even more than I do, and He has been fulfilling them in the convent. For example, He gave the desire of having a family to my heart. Although it has been a big sacrifice to give it up, it is amazing how the Lord has provided for me one-hundred fold, by allowing me to see my sisters and the Church as my family, with priests being our spiritual fathers and the parishioners as my spiritual children. It has been wonderful to pour out my heart for them and to love them.”
For further information about this beautiful religious order, please visit handmaidsoftheheartofjesus.org/. For vocations inquiries, please email handmaidvocation@gmail.com or call 507-766-4570.
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